This guide is about fighting off the all-aspect missile busses that plague 9-10BR. I will go over how to fight them in a higher br plane, and in a lower BR plane, and their strengths and weaknesses in War Thunder. This focuses on Air RB.
The Strengths
Su-25K Frogfoot
- R-60MK 30g missiles 🙁
- Faster than a10, slower than a6e
- OK acceleration
- Gun hits harder than my dads belt
- WONT ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DIE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BRO JUST DIE
A-10
- BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT gun go hard, reminds me of getting an F and coming home (dad found the report card 🙁
- Can still maneuver with a thick payload
- Enough countermeasures to outlive the burning Su-25k you shot 6 Gbu-8s, 600 rounds of depleted uranium rounds, and a nuke.
- Rolls fast, but not as fast as your mo-
A-6E
- 4 Aim9ls, if you do not have many flares, drop 2 and turn off your afterburner, ez miss
- Can dogfight when not fully loaded (you know that’s not gonna happen)
- Most iconic strike aircraft in-game, possibly rivaling the A-10 ( why no tech tree variant)
- Only plane in US tech tree with laser-guided GBU’s ( this sum bs ong)
The weaknesses
Su-25
- Slow top speed
- Sh*ts (speed) faster than you eating at Tacobell (ding)
- Low maneuverability at low-medium speeds
- Chonker
- Drop a flare and the missile goes to venus
A-10 (brrrrrrt)
- Slowest top speed out of these 3
- Climbs slow (fatazz)
- Bleeds speed
- Chonker
- Drop a flare, missile goes to mars (elon musk wya)
- No gun, although most people will take a gunpod
- Drop a flare, missile goes to mars
- Loses speed very fast in turns
- Relatively bad performance when compared to other planes at this BR, compared to the other 2 planes in this guide, best performance out of them all.
- Intrudes your personal space (yes 911 I’d like to report a violation)
Avoiding their missiles like a pro
Stay fast, stay above them preferably as the missile will not have the energy to pull those memey 30gs and smack you back to the hangar and back to the forums to complain about them (I’m not saying they belong at this BR, they do most definitely NOT belong here, do not get me wrong) Drop flares, turn off your afterburner, do a slight turn, ez miss. If you have to dodge it, wait for it to get in 1km, and do a barrel roll (make sure the afterburner is off and full aileron and elevator) You have no chance of dodging it if you are not near 0.9 mach and the missile is not out of energy. If you are above them the missile will lose energy – just like you lose energy in a plane, the higher up you go, the less dense the air is, and the less energy the missile loses. If a missile is launched at you from above, you have almost no chance of dodging it, you must flare it.
If you do not have flares, do not go in front of a 30g missile slinger within 4km or you will get slapped, you can outrun it possible if you are a near mach, to do that you can read the maneuvers I listed above. For the person who said I didn’t add something about dodging missiles without flares, you need to maneuver and you need to try your best to not get a missile launched at you, if it does, you need to pray that it doesn’t have enough energy to pull those 30gs, stay above the plane/behind it. if you are going to overshoot it, do a high yoyo or just break off, don’t get greedy
Fighting them – Gunfighters
This is definitely a work in progress, if you want to request a tutorial on a certain plane, please leave a comment and I will be happy to add it to this guide! I honestly don’t know which planes to do with this so if you could help, it would be amazing for both of us (except the su-25/a10/a6es)
Sabre – Stay fast, do not go in front of them, always stay behind/above them as if they shoot you with a missile it won’t have the energy to pull those 30gs and smack your afterburner.
F-5C
Go near mach 0.9, keep your head on a swivel for other missiles, and dive on them. Shoot and profit
In a 1v1 scenario, turn a bit but not enough for you to bleed all your speed, stay near 0.9 mach and they will try to cut you off, they will bleed speed and then take it vertically with them. Get ready to flare as they may fire a missile thinking you are slow and its an easy kill (I’ve died like this because I wasn’t watching the target)
Fighting them – Missile bois
This is definitely a work in progress, if you want to request a tutorial on a certain plane, please leave a comment and I will be happy to add it to this guide! I honestly don’t know which planes to do with this so if you could help, it would be amazing for both of us (except the su-25/a10/a6es)
fire the missile from a higher altitude, it has more energy and will reach the target faster. Fire it at targets that are slow/unaware (read average premium buyer) The tactics for missile bois are very similar, however with certain planes, for example, you can turn to fight them or bnz them
Mig 21 series: Climb, shoot, profit
Climb above the enemy, and shoot a missile at them ( they do not have RWR so using a radar missile would be preferable, although if they see it it is easier to dodge, they also might panic flare it 🙂
Mig 23: You outperform them, just do what the Mig 21 does but better
Conclusion
Leave a like, and if your favorite plane isn’t here, just leave a comment and I will add it! I made this guide due to the number of people that are having trouble with these planes ********* them in the ******
As you can see, I had a lot of fun making this 🙂 Hopefully, now you can beat those missile busses!
That’s it for the War Thunder: How to fight Su-25s, A-10s, and A-6Es. I hope you guys appreciate it and are Thankful to Saul Goodman for his wonderful guide. All credits belong to his effort If you find this guide useful, kindly rate it on the Steam Community.
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